| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Case of the Golden Bullet by Grace Isabel Colbron and Augusta Groner: "Yes, I can see a wide curve of the room, taking in the entire desk.
Please stand to one side now."
There was deep silence for a moment, then a slight sound as of metal
on metal, then a report, and Muller re-entered the study through the
bedroom. He found Bauer stooping over the picture of the French
soldier. There was a hole in the left breast, where the bullet,
passing through, had buried itself in the back of the chair.
"Yes, it was all just as you said," began the chief of police,
holding out his hand to Muller. "But - why the golden bullet?"
"To-morrow, to-morrow," replied the detective, looking up at his
superior with a glance of pleading.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Battle of the Books by Jonathan Swift: And, what was yet a greater curse,
Long-thinking made my fancy worse
Forsaken by th' inspiring nine,
I waited at Apollo's shrine;
I told him what the world would sa
If Stella were unsung to-day;
How I should hide my head for shame,
When both the Jacks and Robin came;
How Ford would frown, how Jim would leer,
How Sh-r the rogue would sneer,
And swear it does not always follow,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The White Moll by Frank L. Packard: the other, in those two rooms almost opposite each other across
that tenement hall.
And so it seemed that she had the right to hope, even though there
were still so many things she did not know, that if she allowed her
mind to dwell upon that phase of it, it staggered her - where those
code messages came from, and how; why Rough Rorke of headquarters
had never made a sign since that first night; why the original
Gypsy Nan, who was dead now, had been forced into hiding with the
death penalty of the law hanging over her; why Danglar, though Gypsy
Nan's husband, was comparatively free. These, and a myriad other
things! But she counted now upon her knowledge of the Adventurer's
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